Camino 1.5.1 Web Browser Released
Camino combines the awesome visual and behavioral experience that has been central to the Macintosh philosophy with the powerful web-browsing capabilities of the Gecko rendering engine. Built and tested by thousands of volunteers, Mozilla’s Gecko brings cutting-edge innovations and capabilities to users in a standards-friendly and socially responsible form.
Camino 1.51 is now available. Camino 1.5 brings you a heavily updated version of the only native Mac OS X browser using Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine. This release displays web pages with Gecko 1.8.1, the same rendering engine used by the popular Firefox 2 web browser. Gecko 1.8.1 includes thousands of bug fixes over the version used by Camino 1.0, providing users even better web page compatibility.
The following changes and improvements have been made since the Camino 1.5 release.
Camino 1.5.1 contains the following improvements over version 1.5:
• Upgraded to version 1.8.1.6 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, which includes several critical security and stability fixes.
• When changing Chinese, Japanese, or Korean font preferences, using the “Advancedâ€? sheet will now set the font correctly.
• Camino will no longer crash when right-clicking in certain web page menus.
• Alerts and prompts that appear while Camino is hidden will now display properly when Camino is made visible again.
• Spelling items in contextual menus will be displayed in the correct language in localized versions of Camino.
• Camino will no longer auto-fill passwords in disabled form fields.
• Improved ad-blocking.
New in Camino 1.5:
• Feed Detection Sites with RSS feeds are discovered automatically, and are just a single-click subscribe
• Spell Checking Checks as you type, and suggests the words you might be looking for
• Session Saving All your tabs and windows are preserved at startup, even after a crash
• Improved Tabs 'Single window mode' forces new windows to open in tabs, and 'tab jumpback' to return to your previous page.
From new features like the system spell-checker and session saving to improvements in trademark features like annoyance blocking, Camino 1.5 makes all your web tasks more enjoyable. Built on the world’s most compatible rendering engine, Mozilla's Gecko 1.8.1, it displays more pages more accurately than any other Cocoa browser.
Spellchecking
Camino 1.5 includes the built-in Mac OS X spell-checker on every text field. Unlike Firefox, this spell-checker is the same one used throughout Mac OS X. Now you don't have to worry about making spelling mistakes when writing for your blog, leaving comments, or posting on your favorite forum.
Feed detection
When a web page offers an Atom or RSS feed, Camino will display an icon in the location bar, and clicking the icon will pass the feed to the system's default feed reading application.
Session Saving
Camino 1.5 now includes support for “session saving”, or remembering what pages you were visiting when you quit and automatically loading them the next time you start—perfect for all those times you have to install Mac OS X updates! In addition, while crashes are not common, Camino can now load the pages you were visting when you start Camino after it unexpectedly quit.
Keychain compatibility
Camino can now share Keychain entries with Safari.
Keychain entries saved by Camino are now saved in a way that allows other applications to read them.
Annoyance Blocking
Since version 1.0, Camino has included both pop-up blocking and adblocking. But now, it’s even better. Camino 1.5 includes an improved pop-up blocker user interface making it more visible and giving you the option to show the pop-up, whitelist the site, or never get prompted again. Additionally, Camino now includes the ability to keep Flash animation from loading until you’re ready (Flashblock) as well as the ability to disable all plug-ins.
World's Best Rendering Engine
At its core, Camino 1.5 uses Mozilla's Gecko 1.8.1 rendering engine, the same engine used in the popular Firefox 2 web browser. Gecko renders web pages more accurately than any other rendering engine on the planet. Not only is it incredibly fast but it also supports the latest web standards and is built on open source technologies.
RSS Feed Detection
By popular demand, Camino 1.5 supports the detection of RSS/Atom feeds in web pages. When a feed is found, an icon appears in the location bar. Clicking that icon and selecting a feed will send the feed to your default Mac OS X feed reader.
Improved Tabs
Camino’s legendary tabbed browsing is even better in version 1.5. New tooltips help you keep track of all your tabs when you can’t read their titles. “Single window mode” tames sites that insist on opening new windows by forcing their new windows to open in tabs, keeping window clutter to a minimum. With “tab jumpback”, when a site opens a new tab, you can “jump back” to the page you were viewing simply by closing the new tab.
Enhanced plug-in control
Camino 1.5 includes the ability to disable all plug-ins.
Flashblock: The new “Block Flash animations� option prevents Flash from starting until the user clicks the play icon.
Window zooming
The Zoom command now resizes the window to fit the current page‘s content instead of making the window full-screen.
Downloading
A new optional toolbar icon in the Downloads window allows users to move downloaded files to the Trash.
Items in the Downloads window can now be automatically removed upon completion or when quitting Camino.
Searching
The search field in the toolbar is now resizable.
The context menu for selected text in web pages now includes a “Search� item.
Cookie management
Camino now includes an option to accept cookies only for the current session.
User interface polish
Camino 1.5 includes a major reorganization of menus and keyboard shortcuts. The preference panes have been redesigned.
Web content
Camino now uses version 1.8.1 of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine, which contains thousands of bug fixes and support for new technologies like JavaScript 1.7.
Open Source
The Camino Project is proud to say that our product is 100% open-source software. This revolutionary method of development allows a diverse group of people from around the world to work together on a product that is truly developed by and for the people. With so many eyes reviewing Camino's code, as well as that of the Gecko rendering engine, problems are caught quickly, resulting in a more robust and secure product. If you are interested in contributing to the Camino development process, we encourage you to visit our Contribute page. We are always looking for volunteers with skills ranging from graphic and web design to testing and coding.
internet plugins page shows what plugins are available for Camino.
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/OSX.html
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.3 or later
• 50 MB free hard drive space
• 128 MB Ram
System support:
Camino 1.5 .1is a universal binary and runs natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs
• Users of Mac OS X 10.1 should download Camino 0.8.4 and the MRJplugin.
Camino is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.caminobrowser.org/
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